Mike Barnicle is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, and social and political commentator. He is a regular contributor on MSNBC's popular Morning Joe program, and often comments on television and in print about the news of the day. Mike Barnicle has written more than 4,000 newspaper columns, and continues to write for The Daily Beast, TIME, The Huffington Post, ESPN The Magazine, Grantland, Politico, Esquire, and others.

“I want someone running for the presidency, and winning the presidency, who knows how to coordinate a government, how to pull a government together, how to talk to people on both sides of the isle. You have to get people with different views in a room and say ‘we have to pull this together for the United States of America,” says Mike Barnicle about the challenges President Barack Obama has faced during his presidency. Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Mike Barnicle is a veteran print and broadcast journalist recognized for his street-smart, straightforward style honed over nearly four decades in the field. The Massachusetts native has written 4,000-plus columns collectively for The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and the New York Daily News, and continues to champion the struggles and triumphs of the every man by giving voice to the essential stories of today on television, radio, and in print.